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The Best Of PirateBay

By on August 30, 2009 9:47:25 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

... aren't the torrents.

It's the correspondence!

http://thepiratebay.org/legal

The best ones are those where the non-pirates are really insistent, like the websheriff lawers:


Subject: Re: Re : WHITE STRIPES / Pirate Bay - Torrents
From: anakata
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 14:01:41 +0200

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 06:11 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Web Sheriff
> Protecting Your Rights on the Internet
> Tel 44-(0)208-323 8013 / Fax 44-(0)208-323 8080
> [email protected] www.websheriff.com
>
> STRICTLY PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
> ATTENTION ADDRESSEES ONLY



>
> Dear Frederik,

It's spelled "Fredrik".

> We would refer you to our notification of yesterday's date regarding
> the above, the contents of which are self-explanatory (hereinafter
> referred to as the "Notification"), to which we have yet to receive
> the courtesy of a response.

We would like to refer you to our Legal Threats section, on which we,
while having much fun, ridicule people like you.
Thank you for your contribution.

> Notwithstanding the fact that you contend that torrent hosting is
> legal in Sweden (which we would dispute),

...and I would like to refer you to the relevant court cases.
Unfortunately, our legal team partied quite heavily last night, so the
only reference I can provide you with is Högsta Domstolen (the Swedish
Supreme Court) NJA I 1996 page 79.

> you also seem to fail to recognise that your web-site is accessible
> all over the world and that, as such, your actions and, furthermore,
> your refusal to act, opens you and your company up to the possibility
> of law suits in - inter alia - the United States and the United
> Kingdom. Such law suits could result in your being refused entry to
> both the US and the UK

Damnit. You got us there. Now I'm so scared I pissed my pants. Where
should I send the invoice for cleaning them?

> Accordingly we would strongly recommend that you immediately comply
> with the Notification, failing which we shall be obliged to advise our
> clients' attorneys to take against your company (and your company
> officers) without further notice.

Wow, we have something in common! See, I also have obligations of my
own. For example, I'm obliged to provide entertainment to our users.

> We would also warn you that, if such steps do prove to be necessary,
> our clients' attorneys would also (a) notify the Swedish tax
> authorities of your commercial activities,

You mean our non-commercial, loss-generating activities?

> ( notify the Swedish government of your illegal activities, (c)
> notify the Swedish record industry association of your pirate
> activities and (d) notify the IFPI of your piracy activities.

Do you seriously believe that these parties aren't already aware of the
site? You may want to read Swedish media...

> We shall look forward to hearing from you.

We look forward to receiving more of your so exquisitely designed HTML
e-mails with the shiny wanna-be-police-star.

> Whilst writing, we would further caution you against communicating
> or otherwise posting any remarks that could be construed as being
> defamatory of our clients (or Web Sheriff) or that could otherwise be
> injurious to our clients' (or our) genuine business interests.
> Similarly, we would inform you that the copyright in the Notification
> and, indeed, this e-mail is vested in Web Sheriff and that, in the
> event that you attempt to publish either the Notification or this
> e-mail on your web-site (or elsewhere), appropriate action shall be
> taken for infringement of our copyright (we trust, in this regard,
> that you will concur that Sweden does recognise copyright).

We trust, in this regard, that you will concur that publishing your
e-mail is not in violation of Swedish copyright law. When our lawyer's
hangover has passed, he will be more than happy to explain the juicy
details to you.

> Naturally and notwithstanding the foregoing, all accumulated rights
> of our clients - including, but not limited to, the right to institute
> proceedings against your company in the United States - remain
> strictly reserved.

You also have the right to institute sodomizing of yourself. Preferably
with barbed wire, but retractable batons might also work if you push
them far enough.

> Yours sincerely,
>
> WEB SHERIFF

I wanna be a cool WEB SHERIFF when I grow up. Do I get a shiny star and
a six-shooter?


Second Email & response

Subject: Re: WHITE STRIPES / Pirate Bay - Torrents # 2
From: anakata
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:36:08 +0200

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:53 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
> Web Sheriff
>
> Protecting Your Rights on the Internet
>
> Tel 44-(0)208-323 8013 / Fax 44-(0)208-323 8080
>
> [email protected] www.websheriff.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Frederik,
>
> Hello.

Hi! Please, learn to quote properly in your e-mail messages. You can
learn from how I do - I promise you that proper quoting is not patented.

> - We know all about your immature responses to rights owners.

What did you expect? I mean, I still wet my pants damnit, but only when
I'm scared by big mighty policemen like you.
Now you need to pay for another cleaning .

> - Fascinating.

Not as fascinating as the fact that you don't seem to get the hint, or
the fact that someone might actually be paying you to send poor attempts
at scaring people...

> We would suggest that you nominate attorneys in the US who can accept
> the service of proceedings on your behalf. If you do not do this, then
> an application can be made to the Federal Court to serve proceedings
> out of the jurisdiction (ie. in Sweden). This would simply mean that
> our clients would seek to recover more costs from you for the
> additional application. Once proceedings are served overseas, a
> default judgement can easily be obtained unless you elect to defend in
> the US.

I hereby nominate Mr. Lionel Hutz at I-CAN'T-BELIEVE-IT'S-A-LAW-FIRM.
He's a fictional character, but that should be enough to receive your
fictional servings in your non-existent case.

> Not when the ultimate content (ie. of the combined torrents)

What the [my mom told me not to swear, so I deleted this word] is a
combined torrent?

> belongs to third parties ... ... these are their rights to exploit,
> not yours (as you shall no doubt discover).

Now that's what I call a miserable attempt at a cliff-hanger. Let me
guess, you failed your literature classes? Just like you failed law
school and the police academy, and became MR WEB SHERIFF. John, is that
you?

> - That would be a matter for the appropriate authorities to decide
> upon once a formal referral has been.

"once a formal referral has been" ? Me fail english, that's unpossible!

> - Our clients would ensure that the matter is progressed in tandem
> with the IFPI
>
Tandem, is that kind of like spooning? Mommy doesn't allow me to watch
porn, especially not gay porn starring people in fake police uniforms.

> until such time as these activities are ceased permanently ...

At the current rate, I would approximate that you will succeed slightly
after the heat death of the universe, or the Armageddon, whichever comes
first.

> .. this is only a matter of time ... ...

Another miserable cliff-hanger.

> then you would be held to account to all of the parties whose rights
> you have infringed.

> - Regrettably, you may well be in receipt of further communications
> from us.

Yes. You are consuming valuable disk space, CPU time, and bandwidth.
Should I put it on the same invoice as the pants cleaning?
>
> We trust, in this regard, that you will concur that publishing your
> e-mail is not in violation of Swedish copyright law. When our lawyer's
> hangover has passed, he will be more than happy to explain the juicy
> details to you. - You are wrong ; unauthorised publication is a
> copyright violation, which is actionable in virtually every
> jurisdiction in the world (including Sweden).
>
I managed to wake him up (at least he wasn't passed out in an alley this
time), and after he finished laughing, he wrote a nice response for you.

Since you have proven to be such adepts at Swedish law I feel a bit bad
about telling you this. In Sweden not everything is protected under the
copyright laws. A text, for example, has to reach a certain level of
"artistic" and/or individuality value. Itÿs arguable that a, more or
less standardized, e-mail notification of infringement of copyright does
not measure up to this required standard. In any case one can only
reclaim actual damages in Sweden. And proving that the ´unauthorized
publication of your copyrighted material¡ (as in your e-mail) has caused
you any actual damage or loss of profit, related to the infringement and
not the plain stupidity of your own wording, seems to us to be an almost
impossible task. Knowing Swedish law and the Swedish justice system I
would guess from none to zero. And for your information Sweden is a
civil law country and we do not use the idiotic jury system that is
favoured in the common law countries. (you might want to get a
translated copy of the Swedish copyright law ´Lag (1960:729) om
upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk¡. We are sure that such
a respectable company as the ´web sheriff¡ must employ a vast staff of
translators. Good luck!


> > Naturally and notwithstanding the foregoing, all accumulated
> rights
> > of our clients - including, but not limited to, the right to
> institute
> > proceedings against your company in the United States - remain
> > strictly reserved.
> - We have read all of these (supposedly funny) insults that you
> publish before ... ... you might not be laughing when proceedings are
> issued against you in the United States (amongst other things).


As you might know American law is NOT applicable in Sweden. Even though
USA seems to think, from time to time, that there is only one law, just
as there is only on god. In your own law your courts claim only
jurisdiction (under the ´long arm statutes¡) over non-state residence
only in certain cases. Namely when the ´defendant¡ has minimum contacts
in the state where the suit was initiated. In the case Asahi Metal
industries Co., Ltd v. Superior court of CA the U.S. Supreme court ruled
that such ´contacts¡ did not exist since the defendant had no offices,
no agents, no employees or property and so on. Much like our case. The
only thing connecting us with the US is the fact that our torrents are
accessible worldwide. Not being an expert on American law (we have
something in common. Isnÿt it fun how people from all over the world are
connected through our own ignorance?) we still are of the opinion that
there is no, excuse the language, chance in HELL that you will be able
to initiate a suit in an US court against our us and have us summoned to
the US.

That means that such a suit will have to be initiated in Sweden, under
Swedish law. As to this date Swedish law does not forbid the activities
relating to having bitorrent-tracker. Nor does any Swedish precedent
exist that forbids it. We are confident in our assessment that our
activities are perfectly legal and they will continue until such a time
that the Swedish lawmaker changes the law.

It might be hard for you to get what Iÿm about to say through your thick
John Wayne foreheads, so bear with me. The tracker provides the user
only with .torrent files which contain no copyrighted data. The actual
copyrighted material is to be found on the individual machines of our
users, not on our servers.


> - Yes, when you grow up.
>
My mother says I'm a big boy now .

>
>
>





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September 3, 2009 6:49:18 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Quoting Jafo,

If it's all too hard...or all too costly...don't purchase.

Funny, because whenever people are unhappy and don't purchase a product because it has draconic DRM or insane prices their profits drop and guess who gets blaimed? Not their own poor sales tactic, no pirates. Condemn piracy all you want, at the moment corporations that complain most about it only use it as an excuse to justify poor sales of their own piece of shit product and/or get higher profit margins to get them another million on top of their pay-check. I wouldn't even mind paying a few bucks extra if that money would go to the actual developers who get a good living from it and then would be able make another great game. But no, the money ends up in the pockets of the top 1% of the company, and whenever a game fails to sell well all developers are fired and piracy is blamed.

I'm waiting for the day when some game company like EA says: "well we could try to blame piracy but the truth is our game just plain sucked, we overpromised and underdeliverd".

September 3, 2009 9:23:00 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

I'm waiting for the day when some game company like EA says: "well we could try to blame piracy but the truth is our game just plain sucked, we overpromised and underdeliverd".

I'm not going to hold my breath while waiting for that to happen.

September 3, 2009 12:35:22 PM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Quoting Wizard1956,

I'm waiting for the day when some game company like EA says: "well we could try to blame piracy but the truth is our game just plain sucked, we overpromised and underdeliverd".


I'm not going to hold my breath while waiting for that to happen.

Didn't Stardock say something similar regarding Demigod?

September 3, 2009 1:22:16 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

But no, the money ends up in the pockets of the top 1% of the company,

Exactly... the top 1% riding on the backs of those who do the REAL work... deriving excessive profit from the endeavours of others.  Like since when did the top 1% of a company... any large corporation actually create anything/do any real work?  There may be a few exceptions... and I mean FEW,  but for the large part, the upper 1% are parasites... leeches feeding off the blood and sweat of real achievers and customers.

I don't think piracy is right... just that corporate greed is MORE wrong.

September 3, 2009 4:37:10 PM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Quoting Aroddo,


Didn't Stardock say something similar regarding Demigod?

Umm, iirc, Demigod sold far more copies than originally anticipated.

September 3, 2009 8:16:15 PM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Quoting starkers,
Exactly... the top 1% riding on the backs of those who do the REAL work... deriving excessive profit from the endeavours of others.  Like since when did the top 1% of a company... any large corporation actually create anything/do any real work?  There may be a few exceptions... and I mean FEW,  but for the large part, the upper 1% are parasites... leeches feeding off the blood and sweat of real achievers and customers.

I don't think piracy is right... just that corporate greed is MORE wrong.


And at last you've finally come to the heart of your issue, after dancing around it throughout your inane postings about Evil Corporations for over three pages of posts. Your issue isn't with the products and their quality, rather with the make up of the Corporations which create them - the perceived evil of a large, facless legal entity. The fact that you continually use the words 'Corporatation' to define both Developers and Publishers is more than enough evidence for me to write off your arugment as merely the trivials gripes of someone who defines 'Corporations' as the large, all consuming plague of the modern world who step on 'the little man' to line their own pockets with gold. Such a gross generalisation has no place in rationalised arguments.

Corporations are no more evil than a gun; it all depends on who weilds it's power and how they chose to do so. Judging from your comments, I think you'd be better off directing your thoughts towards the money driven society of the Capitalist nations; de-regulated markets, free enterprise and the like. The Video Game industry is small time compared to the Oil Industry, both in terms of money and dishonest and 'evil' behaviour and practices.

Quoting twifightDG,
Funny, because whenever people are unhappy and don't purchase a product because it has draconic DRM or insane prices their profits drop and guess who gets blaimed? Not their own poor sales tactic, no pirates. Condemn piracy all you want, at the moment corporations that complain most about it only use it as an excuse to justify poor sales of their own piece of shit product and/or get higher profit margins to get them another million on top of their pay-check. I wouldn't even mind paying a few bucks extra if that money would go to the actual developers who get a good living from it and then would be able make another great game. But no, the money ends up in the pockets of the top 1% of the company, and whenever a game fails to sell well all developers are fired and piracy is blamed.

I'm waiting for the day when some game company like EA says: "well we could try to blame piracy but the truth is our game just plain sucked, we overpromised and underdeliverd".


I think you're both wrong and right; Piracy is used as an escape goat, however it's not all encompassing or universally used. Raven Squad, the latest horrendous game on the PC Market, has been getting some of the worst reviews I've seen in a long, long time. I don't believe Piracy can be used as a factor in this game's case, however people will Download it just to experience it for themselves; look at Big Rigs, it's an incredibly popular download because it's so bad. That's not technically a loss in Profits, however it's most certainly Piracy.
However, games like Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto 4 and other massive titles that actually are good can certainly blame a loss of profits on Piracy because of their popularity and because they are in fact so good. That is a loss in Profits, and is obviously Piracy.
Companies like EA Games, in my opinion the worst offender, love to use Piracy as their all purpose escape goat; Game preformed bad financially - blame Pirates, rather than their own bad product *cough*NEED FOR SPEED*cough* or even their own DRM software. DRM software is used to counter Piracy, however Pirates love to use DRM as their excuse, their escape goat. Downloaded a game? Yeah, it had DRM.
Burnt a friends copy? Yeah, the industry needs to change it's evil corporate ways, and this is my protest.

 
Sure it is, because not playing the game wouldn't have the same effect, right?

It's Demigod itself that actually shows that Pirates are full of shit and are attempting to justify their actions through whatever means possible; it shipped with no Copy Protection of any kind. None. And Impulse - as it's DRM software - is free and light weight. So, why Pirate the game?
There was no Demo! So don't play it. YouTube up some gameplay footage and do some research. You're on the internet, it's not fucking hard to hit the forums and hear what people have to say.
The truth is, it's because they wanted to get a AAA title for free. Look at how active the Virtual networks were with Demigod's release version; and thankfully, because they don't have access to the patches like we do, that scene is nearly dead. They didn't want to trial the game, they weren't protesting - they wanted what could have been 'the next big thing' for free, before everyone else had it.
This is why companies can use Piracy as their excuse for bad business practices and shit games. It's not a matter of Corporations changing their 'evil ways' or the industry needing to shift it's priorities; it's a matter of people paying for their god damn games - because if a game does well, it'll get more support or a sequel. Look at the Madden franchise on Xbox 360. Every year, it's basically the same game - and yet because people buy it, they keep making them. And yet, if the game were on the PC, how many interations do you think it's have before it was considered no longer profitable?

September 3, 2009 9:01:46 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting pseudomelon,

Quoting Aroddo, reply 103

Didn't Stardock say something similar regarding Demigod?

Umm, iirc, Demigod sold far more copies than originally anticipated.

That would be because Stardock is bigger on customer service than most... because customers are not pissed off with DRM annoyances and restrictions on games/products downloaded via Impulse.  If there was a corporation I can respect (and Stardock is one) it's Stardock... because its big enough to deliver value for money quality products, but small enough that its CEO isn't a faceless entity who just sits back while the money rolls in off the efforts of others.  No way, Brad Wardell rolls up his sleeves and gets his hands dirty as well (worked personally on Galciv I & II), and he doesn't consider himself above us... meaning he will come into the forums and speak with us., unlike other CEO's/execs who think their shit don't stink.

Am I a Srardock fanboi?  Yup, sure am!  Not just because I like the products, but because Stardock has always done right by me (and all its other customers).

So many corporations could take a leaf out of the Stardock book... but they won't because the mindset is purely on profit and the upper echelon has to hide their faces, not through shame, but fear.  That, however, doesn't mean Brad isn't in it to make money, of course he is, that's the point of business, but he doesn't put money above his customers, and the company - customer relationship doesn't end when your money hits Stardock's bank account.

There should be more of it... but I'm not holding my breath.

 

 

September 3, 2009 9:48:49 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

And at last you've finally come to the heart of your issue, after dancing around it throughout your inane postings about Evil Corporations for over three pages of posts. Your issue isn't with the products and their quality, rather with the make up of the Corporations which create them - the perceived evil of a large, facless legal entity. The fact that you continually use the words 'Corporatation' to define both Developers and Publishers is more than enough evidence for me to write off your arugment as merely the trivials gripes of someone who defines 'Corporations' as the large, all consuming plague of the modern world who step on 'the little man' to line their own pockets with gold. Such a gross generalisation has no place in rationalised arguments.

Corporations are no more evil than a gun; it all depends on who weilds it's power and how they chose to do so. Judging from your comments, I think you'd be better off directing your thoughts towards the money driven society of the Capitalist nations; de-regulated markets, free enterprise and the like. The Video Game industry is small time compared to the Oil Industry, both in terms of money and dishonest and 'evil' behaviour and practices.

Didn't think I wrote anything in fine print, so as to conceal my thoughts or intent.

Obviously, then, you've missed something!

One: my thoughts are not exclusive to, nor confined to the Video "Game industry". I consider the oil and other industries to be tarred with the same brush... that of seek to profit at ALL/ANY cost

Two: I have not confused developers and/or publishers with upper level corporate entities... though greed can exist with them as well.

Three: I was not dancing around any issue... and certainly not piracy.  It is the result of what I and many others see as the primary cause many ills in the World today... corporate greed. Therefore my focus has been on cause and effect... piracy/theft largely exists because corporate greed exists. If you somehow missed that point, then perhaps you are on the wrong page.

 

September 3, 2009 10:10:43 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

@ZehDon.... Wow, you sound like Mr. Morality. I admit to pirating some software. So what? Who the fuck are you to judge what people do in the privacy of their own homes? I don't need  any excuse. I do it because i can. Just that simple. Will anything change? No. And for the record, I bought all of my stardock software. Their records can easily show that. And do you really give a shit about anybody's profits? I mean seriously man.... Get off your Mr.Rogers horse.

September 3, 2009 10:46:25 PM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Edit: Quote tags.

Therefore my focus has been on cause and effect... piracy/theft largely exists because corporate greed exists. If you somehow missed that point, then perhaps you are on the wrong page.

I missed nothing, just waited for you to print it in plain English. Piracy is not a response to Corporate Greed, and neither is conditional upon the other. It's a fundamentally flawed argument and thus I chose to point out that your comments on Piracy are not comments on Piracy rather a commentary on the behavious of Corporations; you believe Corporations are responsible for Piracy and thus Piracy cannot be removed until Corporations and give puppies to sick and dying children and dance around holding hands singing 'Imagine' or some other equally unrealistic view.
Piracy is a result of the actions of Pirates. Their motives are no more complex, or socially explainable, than the anonimity of the internet provides them with a method to get something for nothing and so they chose to do so. Stardock, a company who neither indulges in the idiotic practices of other companies nor treats their customers badly, is a victim of Piracy just as much as the larger companies who you seem to blame all the ills of the world upon. Thus, it is logically derived, that neither Corporate greed nor bad customer service or mistreated customers incites Piracy, and thus your argument is flawed. Pirates do what they do because they can, it has nothing to do with the corporate culture of those from whom they steal.

And now excuse me while I address my new favourite forum goer:

ZehDon.... Wow, you sound like Mr. Morality. I admit to pirating some software. So what? Who the fuck are you to judge what people do in the privacy of their own homes?
Oh boy, where to start! I feel like a kid at Christmas!
Firstly, illegal activities that are the deteriment to an industry to whom I turn for the majority of my entertainment are my concern as this results in the current culture of large, expensive games that are over in 5 hours. If it's not your concern, despite enjoying the fruits of the industries labour, I can only deduce that you're a moron and the best possible example I can give of an internet based idiot who has access to illegally produced Digital Media and choses not to pay for it not due to some deep seeded understanding of the ills of the world and has chosen this as the best possible course of retribution, but rather as an idiot with an internet connection and the uneducated and unfounded attitude of "fuck those rich bastards, I gets mine!".

Edit:
Just wanted to add here that your conducting illegal activities - the law doesn't really make much of a difference if it's in your own home or not, and so you're judged upon that as is.

I don't need  any excuse. I do it because i can. Just that simple. Will anything change? No. And for the record, I bought all of my stardock software.
And this is exactly why you're a moron. If you can't understand the stupidity of your actions, then I can only sumise that you lack the inteliigence to understand the context of them in the greater whole. You bought Stardock's games? Nice. How many didn't you buy, and yet enjoyed? The actions of one person don't seem harmfull until you multiply your actions by the number of iditos who harbour the same moronic ideals you do. "I do it because I can" is what's wrong with the world - on both sides of the fence.

And do you really give a shit about anybody's profits? I mean seriously man.... Get off your Mr.Rogers horse.
Yes, and only once you climb off of the "I'm entitled to it" Horse.

September 3, 2009 11:36:40 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums



OOOOHH, I'M SO SCARED THE TORRENT POLICE MIGHT GET ME. Haha. Your funny. And i'm a moron for making my own decisions? Hmmmm. Interesting. Ridiculously stupid, yet interesting. And please the "ills of the world"? that's even funnier.Join greenpeace man. And also are you  seriously that dumb by saying "corporations are no more evil than guns" Are you kidding me? Corporations run our country Idiot! I'll take a gunshot over some banker any day. Awwwww, i'm your favorite too. I feel special. Haha. You amuse me. And yes i'm aware of my "illegal" activities. I just admitted that dum dum! Please now continue your babble Mr. Rogers.Or should i just call you Fred. Have a great day "Fred"

September 4, 2009 12:06:33 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

 Awww, I think I've made a friend!

Let me know where I can deposit the money to have you steralised via the PM system. Thanks!

September 4, 2009 12:42:12 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

You should get a job at the Owebama administration. As WEB SHERIFF CZAR! LOL. And it's "sterilized" genius.

September 4, 2009 12:58:09 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Already moved on to pointing out spelling mistakes as your rebuke? You missed some over the last 5 pages - and my grammatical errors alone should keep you busy for the next week or so.

Thanks for looking out for me though man, I appreciate it.
 

September 4, 2009 1:05:27 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

September 4, 2009 1:30:34 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Dibs on not being the girl.

September 4, 2009 2:08:35 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Darn! I don't wanna be the girl. LOL. Oh well..........

September 4, 2009 2:30:05 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Quoting pjdark,


OOOOHH, I'M SO SCARED THE TORRENT POLICE MIGHT GET ME. Haha. Your funny. And i'm a moron for making my own decisions? Hmmmm. Interesting. Ridiculously stupid, yet interesting. And please the "ills of the world"? that's even funnier.Join greenpeace man. And also are you  seriously that dumb by saying "corporations are no more evil than guns" Are you kidding me? Corporations run our country Idiot! I'll take a gunshot over some banker any day. Awwwww, i'm your favorite too. I feel special. Haha. You amuse me. And yes i'm aware of my "illegal" activities. I just admitted that dum dum! Please now continue your babble Mr. Rogers.Or should i just call you Fred. Have a great day "Fred"

"He had a lot to say,

he had a lot of nothing to say, we'll miss him

we'll miss him"

 

September 4, 2009 3:16:11 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

I love Tool. At least you quote good music jackass.

September 4, 2009 4:09:26 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Yeah, I could hardly help myself.

September 4, 2009 4:13:37 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

And now excuse me while I address my new favourite forum goer:

Be my guest... we're done anyhow.

September 4, 2009 10:12:27 AM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Haha this thread is  getting ridiculous
Are you fighting just to have a discussion? cuz everyone wants a nice discussion at times
anyway, I'am not saying piracy is right BUT if piracy was that bad there would be no more new releases of games/videos/music/apps and so on. You are not working if you know you are not getting payed, I mean no one is that stupid. If there is no money in a business you quit and start a new one where there is money to catch.
Right, if the people is lazy, I stop selling bikes and start selling cars. Thats It.
So please stop whining and get another job, and who will be the real loosers in the end?
The pirates! who no longer have any new material to pirate...  (ok maby the actuall loosers will be the guys who wants new stuff to pay for but hey the business had no feuture ..)

(please choose the stop whining alternative cause i want your products! )

my post probably sounded better in my head yeah yeah what else can i do..

September 4, 2009 1:32:39 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums

If there is no money in a business you quit and start a new one where there is money to catch.

Piracy is a business?

Since when must ANY honest people surrender to criminals after being stolen from.

Revenge cost a lot less for those with some moral principles.

September 4, 2009 1:43:42 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

What an arrogant little @#$%. Hopefully some day he'll appreciate what it takes to earn an honest living, rather than leeching off the hard work of others.  I feel sorry for those brainwashed by this childish anti-corporate drivel. Sorry bay boys, but Ironclad and countless other small studios happen to be the 'evil corporations' stocking your virtual shelves.

September 4, 2009 3:06:40 PM from Demigod Forums Demigod Forums

Quoting Zyxpsilon,

Piracy is a business?

Since when must ANY honest people surrender to criminals after being stolen from.

Revenge cost a lot less for those with some moral principles.


Piracy is not a business.. that was not what i meant (eventough it is for the piratebay and the  beach-salesmen)
It's not about "surrendering", creating media is a business, if your not earning anything on it why would you still keep going doing it?

btw what kind of revenge are you talking about?

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